Skyrim, when out in the open areas it seems, CONSTANTLY causes my graphics card drivers to fail.

Screen will freeze, flicker and eventually come back. This happens a few times, or sometimes not at all, until the screen freezes, everything goes black and the game crashes entirely. This also happens with fallout 3 and fallout new vegas (much more so with new vegas) and not at all with any other graphically intense 3D game (planetside 2 and League of Legends all work fine).

Ive updated graphics drivers, tried to boot game in other compatibility modes, tweaked audio settings and some other things all to no avail. Starting a new character/game I am able to get through the first main dungeon. But as soon as i get to the first dragon battle.....it becomes unplayable. Freezing, crashing....forever.

The rage in my body.....it builds. Havent been able to play any of the games that use this graphics engine.... pls, halp me.

How old is your graphics card? From the looks of it your graphics ram needs to be higher. Mine is at 1.4 G and it runs Skyrim on medium settings. have you turned of anti-aliasing?

1gb and Its fairly old at this point. When Skyrim is working, even its just for a minute or two, the framerate is perfect. Newer, seemingly more demanding games, run excellent without crashing. No anti-aliasing.

it is an old card , maybe time to think about an upgrade , or try the 314.21 or .22 driver that works real well for me

Ive considered that before, mainly cause windows aero was causing lots of similar problems with League of Legends....then i turned aero off and havent had the problem since.

except for with games that use this bethesda engine. All other games i play work fine under heavy proccessing loads. Planetside 2, for example, has a much newer engine that taxes my system pretty good (30fps or less) ... but it has yet to crash or have a similar problem to skyrim/fallout games.

Upgrading is inevitable; but when skyrim runs at 60fps+ but randomly crashes CONSTANTLY, in addition to other games that use the same exact engine, im thinking its not the card.